Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (2 July 1908-24 January 1993) was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 30 August 1967 to 1 October 1991, succeeding Tom Clark and preceding Clarence Thomas.

Biography
Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908, the great-grandson of a slave. He was a brilliant student, having graduated second in his class at Howard University (following his rejection from the University of Maryland on racial grounds). Later, he was to bring a lawsuit to integrate that body. He argued in the case of the NAACP in Brown vs. Board of Education by virtue of his leadership of that organization's legal defense fund. He was Solicitor-General from 1965 to 1967 under Lyndon B. Johnson, and was subsequently elevated to the US Supreme Court. A noted liberal, he was the first African-American Supreme Court justice. He retired in 1991, and he died in 1993.